rámae
Old Irish
FWOTD – 7 January 2023
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *rāmyos (“oar”), (compare Welsh rhaw, Cornish rêv, Middle Breton reuf (“shovel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈr͈aːṽɘ]
Noun
rámae m (genitive rámai)
- oar
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 36a7
- cét rámae fuiri
- a hundred oars in it
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 36a7
- spade
- c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, §40, line 532
- lorg rám(m)ai
- shaft of a spade
- c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, §40, line 532
Inflection
| Masculine io-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | rámae | rámaeL | rámaiL |
| Vocative | rámai | rámaeL | rámu |
| Accusative | rámaeN | rámaeL | rámuH |
| Genitive | rámaiL | rámaeL | rámaeN |
| Dative | rámuL | rámaib | rámaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| rámae also rrámae after a proclitic |
rámae pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ráma, rám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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